2025 Free “Japan Day Festival” in SF’s Japantown

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join us for our annual summer festival of Japanese arts and culture. Enjoy performances of taiko drumming, awa odori dance, Okinawan drumming and dance, karate, and shamisen. Get hands on and make your own washi ningyo paper doll, origami, or shodo calligraphy.

Schedule for Hotel Kabuki Outdoor Stage:

• 12:00pm – 12:25pm: Gen Taiko & Odori
• 12:30pm – 1:00pm: Sakura Ren Awa Odori
• 1:00pm – 1:20pm: 80th Anniversary Commemoration of Atomic Bomb
• 1:25pm – 1:55pm: Generations of joy drumming and dance
• 2:00pm – 2:30pm: Sakura Ren
• 2:30pm – 2:40pm: MatsuQ Nozawa and Francis Wong
• 2:45pm – 3:00pm: International Karate League
• 3:00pm – 4:00pm: Okinawa Kenjinkai Eisa Shima Taiko
• 4:00pm – 4:30pm Gintenkai National Project

Schedule for Studio Gen Indoor Events

• 12:30pm – 1:30pm: The Way of Tea, Urasenke Foundation San Francisco
• 1:00pm – 5:00pm: Washi Ningyo paper dolls
• 1:00pm – 2:00pm: Origami workshop
• 2:30pm – 3:30pm: Shodo calligraphy workshop
• 3:30pm – 4:30pm: Gidayu Shamisen
• 4:30pm-5:00pm: Master Artist MatsuQ Nozawa and Gen Shamisen

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.